Ted Reed
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American Airlines Says LaGuardia Airport Is Its Newest Hub
New York LaGuardia is an American Airlines hub, American spokeswoman Bri Harper said this week. Under the Northeast Alliance, American and JetBlue can connect passengers at LGA. → Read More
Pilots Balk As American Airlines Rolls Out New Cockpit Procedures
American Airlines on Tuesday implemented new cockpit procedures including changes to cockpit communications during critical events including low visibility landings, prompting pilots to charge that implementation has been overly hasty. → Read More
Under Pressure After Derogatory Posts, United Pilot Leader Steps Down After Just 48 Hours
The controversial former leader of the United Airlines pilots stepped down late Wednesday after just two days on the job, dislodged by a series of derogatory texts he had written about women and minorities. → Read More
Top Six Airline Trends For 2023 Include Safety Threats And More Buzz Around United
What will happen in 2023? Threats to the air safety infrastructure will continue. A vanguard pilot deal at Delta Air Lines will bring relative labor peace. United Airlines will create buzz but 'bleisure' analysis may fade.. → Read More
Courts Side With American Airlines Pilot Fired After He Declined Flawed Drug Test Request
DeWitt Ingram, a 21-year American pilot, wants his life back. Ingram was fired after an August 2020 incident in which he declined to take a random drug test that apparently was meant to be taken by someone else. → Read More
‘Bleisure’ Travel Is The Talk Of The Airline Industry. Southwest Wonders If It’s For Real.
Blended leisure and business travel was a frequent topic on third-quarter airline earnings calls, but Southwest CEO Robert Jordan says, “I've personally been slow to decide that we have a new trend, and that (it’s) the trend for a long period of time." → Read More
Is Now The Time To Visit Europe?
The “shoulder season,” from September through October has long been considered a good time to travel to Europe because of cooler temperatures and fewer crowds. → Read More
American Airlines Moves Toward Pilot Contract After ‘Solid’ Labor Day Weekend
An upbeat Robert Isom took a victory lap Wednesday, telling an investment conference that the carrier performed well over Labor Day, contract talks with pilots are moving ahead and lagging corporate business travel will likely recover. → Read More
Airlines’ Horrible Summer Of 2022 Will Have Its Last Gasp This Weekend
The post-pandemic summer of 2022 — with its reduced capacity, stripped-down workforces, overly exuberant scheduling and frequent thunderstorms - exposed the fragility in U.S. commercial aviation. Now it's ending. → Read More
How Europe’s Airports Became Choke Points For Summer Travel
As operational problems have diminished in the U.S., they have increased at the airports of Europe, where crowds have overwhelmed key airports include London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol. → Read More
Spirit Airlines Pilots Make An Offer: Let Us Help You Stem Attrition
Pilots at Spirit Airlines, a merger target for two potential acquirers, offered Wednesday to open contract talks early in an effort to face Spirit’s severe pilot attrition. → Read More
In Boston, Delta Rolls Out Its New Domestic ‘Cornerstone’ Airbus A321 In Move To Dominate Logan
Today Delta Air Lines will scale up its battle to become Boston Logan’s number one carrier, bringing in the new Airbus A321neo airplane that symbolizes its domestic future as well as adding two transatlantic destinations, Athens and Tel Aviv. → Read More
United Airlines’ Newark Airport Resurgence Shows That Europe Is Back This Summer
United Airlines said Tuesday it will kick off the largest transatlantic expansion in its history, restoring Newark Airport to preeminence after a dramatic falloff during the pandemic. → Read More
How American Airlines Became Number One In The South
Pandemic restructuring has meant that in the first quarter, American's capacity in the South was higher than any other airline's. → Read More
Will Wall Street’s ‘Capacity Discipline’ Enforcers Jump Back In As Airlines Report Earnings?
Capacity discipline, a Wall Strret favorite, is back in vogue. It reappeared on the Delta Air Lines earnings call last week. → Read More
If JetBlue And Spirit Merge, Flight Attendants Would Choose Between Two Unions.
If JetBlue and Spirit merge, flight attendants would likely get to vote on whom they want to represent them. Both AFA And TWU have charismatic leaders. → Read More
Delta Air Lines Exec Says Demand Has Never Recovered So Quickly
We’re seeing an increase in demand that is really unparalleled,” said Delta Air Lines President Glen Hauenstein. "I don’t think our revenue management team has ever seen demand turn on so quickly.” → Read More
Airline Industry Heads Back To Normal As Analyst Sees ‘Insatiable’ Demand
Air travel has resumed, oil prices may be falling and winter ends next week. Is that enough to kick start the airline industry for 2022? → Read More
Wizz Air Is Trying To Get Trapped Crews Out Of Ukraine As Some Said To Be Hiding In Kyiv Subway
The Hungarian carrier has crew members and A320s trapped in Ukraine, with at least some employees charging that the airline was too slow to react to the threat that Russia was about to invade the country. → Read More
Will Airline Ticket Prices Rise Along With Fuel Costs?
Oil prices are rising, thanks to higher demand and the Ukraine invasion. Experts said air fares will likely rise, but perhaps with some restraint by the carriers. → Read More